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Description: | In total 1,833 men went to war from the factory; of these 145 were killed in action. One of the early wartime casualties was Ronald Poulton Palmer, George William's nephew and adopted son. He had entered the business as an apprentice in 1912 and was due to join the engineering department in the autumn of 1914. Sadly he was killed in action in 1915. The number of men who joined up from the firm during the First World War caused a labour shortage in the factory. More women were employed to do what had previously been men's work such as engineering. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | H.V. Walker social history trade T.C. Church A.J.G. Goodall W. Bonner S. Martin A.R. Case A.E. Freeman war C. Thorne commemoratives G. Baxter G. Money H.V. Mott J.W.V. Blazey S. Gould C. Wooldridge L. Beard | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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